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Tokenized gold holds through the sell-off, but DeFi collateral adoption stays under 2%

7/30/2026

A RedStone report found tokenized bullion held its footing through gold's sharp sell-off, a result the firm framed as a passed DeFi stress test. The resilience reading is real.

But collateral deployment tells a different story: less than 2% of outstanding tokenized gold supply sits inside DeFi lending markets, a gap that limits how much the asset actually matters to protocol risk tables.

The stress test case RedStone's core finding is about price fidelity under pressure.

When gold sold off sharply, tokenized bullion tracked the underlying metal closely enough for the report to categorize the episode as a stress test the asset cleared.

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